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Some plants bloom year after year. Others get just one spectacular chance. Last month, after 25 years of quiet growth, the Utah agave ( Agave utahensis subsp. kaibabensis) in the Roads Water-Smart

Plant Select® is a unique program that brings plants to the consumer market that are good for the Colorado Front Range steppe environment. Plants from the Plant Select program are integrated into many

Denver is located in a steppe ecosystem that is characterized by extremes: extreme cold, heat, drought, hail and wind. To be a plant that survives this environment is to be resilient, to bounce back

The American West is a shrubby place. Our region’s arid climate and ecology limits the growth of trees, leaving grasslands and shrublands to reign supreme. Our dry shrublands are alive with varying